Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread.

meanwhile, over the tasman...Australia 77/7 dbart2010-12-26 16:39:55

All out for 98  giddyup2010-12-26 17:17:15

Loved the Aussie commentators talking about the soft pitch...and the Poms 77/0!

At 113/0 Ian Healy: 'Don't switch over, this is when a hattrick occours - bang bang bang and England are on the ropes'

He really is the biggest biased knob in a team of biased knobs.

suck it w**kers.

Hear, Hear.

Healy prattling on about how we don't know if it's a bad display by AUstralia until we see England bat.  Seen enough yet you biased cock?

Just smash 'em England!  Smash 'em!!!!!!!!!!!!

poms

healy could drop dead tomorrow and i wouldn't give a sh*t.

No celebrational jig ?

i'd just carry on life as normal and just pretend he never lived.

ROFL. What a day.

Went to the Black caps game today.

How do you find out the crowd attendance?

Looked like a small crowd but wasn't sure if the bigger stadium gave it that effect.

About 16,000

Is that official??

Or is that just what you think

Ponting is such an arse.  Having a massive bitch about a not out decision.

Ponting = twat

Best Boxing Day ever.

would heart a 300 run lead.

I thought this was quite a good article comparing the unorthodoxy of 20/20 vs test cricket in the Herald today

Apparently when Andrew Strauss won the toss yesterday he said "you can bat". Ricky Ponting then replied "no we can't".

This is pretty f**kin sweet to watch, good start to my holiday.

Post match press conference will be Ponting whinging about the review system and how it ruined this test match.

Hope prior gets his ton [deserves it] then they declare with a few overs left in the day.

Who is going to read out the last rites?

I don't see any point England batting tomorrow. Get cracking on trying to take some wickets. The more time bowling at them the more likely they'll take them. Get in there England!

There's 3 days left. Pile on the runs, get a lead of 500 by tea, still have 7 sessions to roll them. Easy. Humiliating. Done.

This^

Give them a daunting figure to chase so they know they need at least four batsmen to score huge runs.

They'll be playing for a draw. The lead is already daunting. I'd hate to see the Aussies save this, and they could if the rain does come, which is in the cards.

They won't come close to saving it unless it pisses down for 2 straight days.

I don't think the Aussies can block for a whole 2 days

Sweet - according to weather.com.au rain is not on the way. So it's looking very good!

I'm looking forward to seeing this:



Edit: Actually I just figured the tweet was in response to Chris Rattue's piece today for the Herald.
Footpaul2010-12-27 21:59:25

Worth all that practice if he's only playing 3 hours?

Damn journos

Ponting blows his top

Some performance that. Hope he's embarrassed after watching the footage himself. Haddin was the only player who thought it was out so he was arguing with only Haddin's word and the big screen shots to go by, which were what the 3rd umpire confirmed it not out from. Stupid c**t.

Shows the Aussie attitude. I remember Warne telling Daar how to umpire in Brisbane a few years back when he was fresh on the scene. The Aussies are getting a bit found out by this referral system.

Watched the video Leggy?

Leggy's quietly weeping into his souvenir Ricky Ponting pillow case.

I've seen it. I don't agree, however with the technology today no one can get away with anything.
Please don't tell me that Oz are the only team to have behaved like this.
Suggest you listen to what the South African Kevin P. had to say.
As for the result, as I said I'm not a cricket freek, so I really don't care.

Been fined 40% of this match fee. woop be f**k.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2010-11/content/current/story/494231.html

What did Kevin say?